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PROBLEM SOLUTIONS


CHAPTER 1. PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS


1-1 A 1.4-cm diameter sphere placed in a freestream at 18 m/s at 20°C and 1 atm. Compute the
diameter Reynolds number for 3 cases:

(a) Air: Table A-2 - at 20°C,  = 1.205 kg/m3,  =1.81 E-5 Pa-s. Then
(1.205)(18)(0.014) = 16, 800
ReD = VD/ = (Ans.)
1.81E-5

(b) Water: Table A-1 - at 20°C,  = 998 kg/m3,  =1.002 mPa-s:

ReD = (998)(18)(0.014)/ (0.001002) = 251, 000 (Ans.)

(c) Hydrogen: Table A-3, M = 2.016, then R = 8313/M = 4124 m2/ s2-K. Thus estimate
 = p/RT = (101350) / (4124)(293) = 0.0838 kg/m3. From Table 1-2 for hydrogen,

  o (T/To ) = (8.411E-6)(293/273)068 = 8.83 E-6 Pa-s
n



Then ReD = (0.0838)(18)(0.014) / (8.83 E-6) = 2, 400 (Ans.)




1-2 At what wind velocity will an 8-mm-diameter wire “sing” at middle C (256 Hz)?
For air at 20°C, assume v  1.5E-5 m2/s. From Fig. 1-8 guess a vortex-shedding Strouhal
number of 0.2 [check the Reynolds number afterward]. Then
fD/U  0.2 = (256)(0.008)/U, or U 10.24 m/s. At this speed the Reynolds number is
ReD = UD/v = (10.24)(0.008) /1.5E-5 = 5400. This is nicely in the range where fD/U = 0.2.
Perhaps we could iterate just a little more closely to obtain

fD/U  0.205, Re = UD/v  5300, or U = 10.0 m/s (Ans.)



1-3 If U = 12 m/s in Prob. 1-2 above, what is the wire drag in N/m?
For air assume  =1.205 kg/m3 and v =1.5E-5 m2/s. The Reynolds number is

ReD = UD/v = (12)(0.008) / (l.5E-5) = 6400



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From Fig. 1-9 at this Reynolds number, estimate a drag coefficient of 1.1. Then
1 2
F =C V (DL) = 1.1(0.5)(1.205)(12)2 (0.008)(1.0) = 0.76 N/m (Ans.)
drag D 
2




1-4 Given, without proof, the Poiseuille-paraboloid laminar-pipe-flow formula from
Chap. 3, u = (C/)(R2 − r2), find the wall shear stress if umax = 30 m/s, D = 1 cm, and
 = 0.3 kg/(m-s). [The exact analysis will be given in Sect. 3-3.1.]
Examining the formula, we see that the maximum velocity occurs on the centerline:

umx = u ( r = 0) = CR2/ = 30 m/s = C(0.005) / (0.3) , or: C = 3.6E5 N/ m 2 -s2
2
( )
With C thus known for this data, we may evaluate wall shear stress by differentiation:
 2RC 
 =  u = = 2RC = 2 (0.005)(3.6E5) = 3600 Pa (Ans.)
wall   
r r=0  

We should check the Reynolds number ReD but we don’t know the density. But “oil” is usually
in the range   900 kg/m3. Then ReD = umaxD/ = (900)(30)(0.01) / (0.3)  900, which is
well within the laminar-flow range.




1-5 Glycerin at 20 C is confined between two large parallel plates. One plate is fixed and the
other moves parallel at 17 mm/s . The distance between the plates is 3 mm . Assuming
no-slip, estimate the shear stress in the glycerin, in Pa.

Solution: Glycerin at 20 Cis confined between two large parallel plates. One plate is fixed and
the other moves parallel at V = 17 mm/s . The distance h between the plates is 3 mm.
u=V
Moving plate


h
Glycerin


u=0
Fixed plate

For glycerin at 20 C, the viscosity  =1.5 kg/ms .


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Assuming no-slip, the shear stress  = V =
(1.5 kg/m  s)(17 10−3 m/s) = 8.5 Pa . (Ans.)
h (310 −3
m/s)




1-6 Given a plane unsteady viscous flow in polar coordinates:

C  r2 
vr = 0; v =   − 4vt 
1− exp
r
  







Compute the vorticity and sketch some profiles of vorticity and velocity.
From Appendix B, the vorticity is
1 C  r2 
 =
z (rv ) = exp −
 4vt 
r r 2vt
 

The instantaneous velocity and vorticity profiles are plotted at top. At t = 0, the flow is a “line”
vortex, irrotational everywhere except at the origin ( = ).


1-7 Given the two-dimensional unsteady flow u = x/(1+t), v = y/ (1+2t), find the equation
for the streamlines which pass through the point (x0 , y0 ) at time ( t = 0). From the geometric
requirement for two-dimensional streamlines at any instant,



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